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Of course this author's happy--they're a designer . Meanwhile, everyone else has to absorb the burden of the "pendulum" ceaselessly swinging, retraining their brains yet again to absorb new visual memories and habits. There seems to be no such concept as "good enough."
I wonder if Apple will ever let people install app icon libraries to change the appearance of default apps. That would be fun (at least I remember having fun as a kid doing that on Windows 95).
I know that it could do things like apply a "steampunk" theme, where all the scrollbars turned into brass poles, with green leather handles for the thumb button.
Some of the themes were vomit-inducing (most of them, actually), but it did have a couple of great ones.
Now that was an interesting UI.
https://www.mprove.de/script/99/kai/2Software.html?utm_sourc...
Anyone remember Kai's Power Tools? Now that was an interesting UI. https://www.mprove.de/script/99/kai/2Software.html?utm_sourc...
What if we could give complete control of visuals to user? I use kde nowadays and the amount of customization is awesome. I am using chrome OS theme with tela icon pack and a cool ass animated mouse pack. And its frankly awesome. I feel like Apple is stagnating.
A recent example was some web view showing a change log that respected the font color settings but not the background, resulting in white-on-white text with my dark UI.
I'm probably far more willing to spend time on such issues. But I never got to a place where I felt I was "done". In that sense, Linux only demonstrates the difficulty of UI choices, and how it may not be possible to leave it to users. Hell, it's not even possible, apparently, to leave to application developers, judging by the state of the non-customized Linux desktop. Design may be a creative endeavour that requires a competent dictator, and cannot be done in the bazaar-model of OSS.
(That, of course, is on top of the rather large number of flaws of any given Linux UI. Seriously: after reading much praise and endless criticism of MacOS here on HN, I gave (K)Ubuntu another shot. And the only possible conclusion is that Apple and Linux are measured on widely different scales.)
Designers: Apple's done it again, Time to adopt neomorphism in our apps and the web, like we did with flat design and skeuomorphism.
Me: About this battery...[0]
[0] https://www.macrumors.com/2020/06/23/macos-big-sur-battery-h...
Anyone remember Kai's Power Tools? Now that was an interesting UI. https://www.mprove.de/script/99/kai/2Software.html?utm_sourc...
Does anyone know what happened to Kai Krause? Last I heard he was working on Something Interesting, and then silence.
I don't really care about "fun", but I just can't find the words to explain how happy I am that there's a chance we might put all this flat madness behind us. I'm looking forward to: * Not having this conversation with my mom (who, at 60+, is remarkably adept with computers but hey, we all run into trouble sometimes) over the phone anymore: Me: Okay mom, now press the "Edit" button Mom: Which one's the edit button? M…
Edit! First off I appreciate the hate keep it coming.
Secondly it's like this dude had this list in his back pocket just waiting for this post to show up so he could get it off his chest.
Now back to your regularly scheduled death march
I don't really care about "fun", but I just can't find the words to explain how happy I am that there's a chance we might put all this flat madness behind us. I'm looking forward to: * Not having this conversation with my mom (who, at 60+, is remarkably adept with computers but hey, we all run into trouble sometimes) over the phone anymore: Me: Okay mom, now press the "Edit" button Mom: Which one's the edit button? M…